Music, youth voices, and a powerful call to action took centre stage at the Freetown City Concil Auditorium as Lyrical Three, a talented trio of young girls, emerged as the overall winners of the EU–Ballanta Academy Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Singing Competition, held on Friday, 12 December 2025.

The EU Delegation in Sierra Leone celebrated International Human Rights Day under the theme “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials”. The event, held at Leicester Peak in Freetown, provided a crucial platform for civil society organizations (CSOs) to reflect on the state of rights and freedoms, in partnership with International IDEA and BBC Media Action.

Starting in October 2025, the Entry Exit System (EES) is a biometric border check for travelers to the 29-country Schengen Area that will ease travel for non-Europeans to European countries.

The European Union Delegation to Sierra Leone hosted a heartfelt farewell ceremony on 15 August 2025 for this year’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Scholarship awardees ahead of their departure to Europe.